Rangers Protocol, build the "Orlando" entertainment center on the chain
Author | Qin Xiaofeng
Editor | Hao Fangzhou
Produced | Odaily
Author | Qin Xiaofeng
Editor | Hao Fangzhou
Produced | Odaily
However, unlike financial applications, non-financial scenarios such as NFT and blockchain games are more interoperable and interact more frequently. Therefore, for such applications to be applied on a large scale, it is first necessary to solve problems such as high-frequency interaction. Moreover, they have higher requirements for the underlying infrastructure of the blockchain. The current king of public chains, Ethereum, is obviously unable to accommodate this demand, and the main scenarios of other public chains are basically financial applications, which also do not have sufficient conditions.
Recently, Odaily came into contact with a project called Rangers Protocol——Ranger Protocol (formerly known as: Rocket Protocol, Rocket Protocol), which may be able to solve the above problems. From a practical point of view, as early as 2018, Rocket Protocol version 1.0 was used in many popular chain games such as "Cloud Fighting Dragon" and "Crypto Throne". While maintaining the entertainment of the game, it also avoided network congestion , Repeat the mistakes of "Encryption Kitties".
This year, the Rangers Protocol has been upgraded again. In addition to the brand image update, the new Rangers Protocol integrates the cross-chain protocol, the NFT protocol and the EVM protocol. It is a high-performance chain group that can realize multi-chain contract-level interoperability within the EVM system. With the assistance of chain game veteran MixMarvel, Rangers Protocol has gradually grown into a blockchain infrastructure that is friendly to decentralized complex application developers and users. It serves all entrepreneurs who want to explore in the blockchain world, allowing pioneer developers to freely try more diverse content and applications in the Rangers Protocol ecosystem without permission.
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1. The long-term prosperity of NFT requires tools that can support complex applications
This year, the concept of NFT became popular. As the transaction prices of various NFT artworks continue to break historical records, NFT has stepped out of the small circle and moved to the big stage, attracting the attention of mainstream society. CCTV has repeatedly reported and popularized NFT. Celebrities, scholars, and investment institutions at home and abroad have spoken out in support of the development of NFT. Celebrities, artists, and popular IPs have also begun to move towards chain reform. Various audio and video, game props, The NFTization of celebrity works emerges in an endless stream.
However, the limelight of out-of-circle works is often one-off. As the popularity of high-priced NFTs decays, the turnover rate (circulation) decreases, and collectors gradually hide behind the scenes. Especially in the recent market downturn, the NFT sector has also begun to cool down. Could it be that NFT can only exert value at the moment of transaction, and then it will enter a long period of snow storage? Is NFT a bubble hype, or does it have just-needed application scenarios? After the frenzy subsides, these questions are worth pondering.
Jade Zhang, founder of MixMarvel, pointed out that NFT can be better integrated with culture, community, and fan economy, forming a closed loop, capturing long-tail traffic, and NFT is also easier to get out of the circle, and the prosperity of NFT in the future will gradually become the norm. "I think the imagination space of NFT is very large, and it may even be larger than DeFi. The current virtual commodity market is 130 billion US dollars, and the digital content market is more than 300 billion US dollars. Although NFT is only 50 billion US dollars, it is growing every year. As high as 300% to 500%, so NFT will be a very large blue ocean market, and the future can be expected.” Jade Zhang explained.
Foreseeing the development prospects of NFT, the MixMarvel team entered the blockchain game track as early as 2017, and successively launched a number of popular chain games such as "Cloud Fighting Dragon" and "HyperSnakes", gaining fame. This year, MixMarvel launched the new product LeCube (Lego on the chain) again, focusing on the creation of the NFT community and the new gameplay of NFT+DeFi. A few days ago, LeCube has been officially launched.
Now, with the popularity of NFT, more traditional game developers and popular IPs have made the same decision as MixMarvel and embarked on the journey of NFT. However, new players found that this journey of chain reform was not smooth sailing, and there were many difficulties. The most prominent problem was the imperfection of the underlying structure.
If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. However, looking at the current development of the underlying infrastructure, there are only a handful of public chains that can truly support non-financial application scenarios. The main direction of many public chains headed by Ethereum is financial applications. Faced with more frequent non-financial applications, especially for information storage and game applications that require more frequent user interaction, the pressure is greater.
Therefore, new developers need a blockchain infrastructure with high performance, compatibility with Ethereum EVM, and professional support for NFT and complex applications. Although Ethereum has a large number of users, it does not meet the requirements of high performance; although Flow under Dapper Labs meets high performance and supports NFT, it is not compatible with EVM and cannot accommodate the Ethereum ecosystem; other public chain ecosystems such as TRON and Polkadot , which is also not a sufficient condition.
In order to meet the escalating market demand, MixMarvel invested in incubating Rangers Protocol. The emergence of Rangers Protocol may become an important option for developers inside and outside the circle to enter the NFT market, and lead a new round of upsurge in the encryption industry after DeFi.
"With the rapid development of the industry, the demand for complex applications is increasing, but the underlying facilities are very fragmented and cannot meet the demand. Without good tools, it is almost impossible to produce good content. As an industrial-grade development tool The Rangers Protocol is designed for complex applications, allowing developers to freely create decentralized applications that adapt to various scenarios." Jade Zhang told Odaily.
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2. Ranger agreement, build an entertainment city on the chain
However, can Rangers Protocol really withstand the huge pressure brought by high-frequency interaction scenarios?
(1) Multiple iterations to meet market demand
The development of Rangers Protocol can be traced back to 2018. At that time, the chain game market was in the ascendant, and the MixMarvel team also developed "Cloud Fighting Dragon", but due to the backward performance of Ethereum, it could not give users a better gaming experience. Therefore, the MixMarvel team started to incubate the predecessor of Rangers Protocol - Rocket Protocol version 1.0, which is an Ethereum-based Layer-2 expansion solution. The launch of version 1.0 has endowed "Cloud Fighting Dragon" with unique performance and gameplay. For example, users can participate in multiple games at the same time, operate in real time and make settlements. "Cloud Fighting Dragon" has also been well received by the market, and quickly replaced "Crypto Kitties" as the number one in the chain game market.
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(Cloud Fighting Dragon)
The success of "Cloud Fighting Dragon" also made MixMarvel realize the importance of infrastructure for upper-level applications. In the following two years, MixMarvel carried out several upgrades and version iterations on Rocket Protocol, and recently carried out a new brand upgrade including a name change (after the name change: Rangers Protocol). Rangers Protocol is about to launch testnet and mainnet. As a high-performance chain group that can realize the interoperability of multi-chain contracts in the EVM system, Rangers Protocol integrates cross-chain protocols, NFT protocols, and EVM protocols, and serves all entrepreneurs who want to explore in the blockchain world, allowing pioneers to develop Developers can freely try more diverse content and applications in their ecology without permission.
Rangers Protocol plans to launch its mainnet in the third quarter of this year, aiming to support the development of DApps based on Rangers Protocol. This stage will focus on the development of VRF+BLS consensus mechanism, EVM-based smart contract system and NFT protocol stack. In addition, when the mainnet is launched, the Rangers Protocol team will announce the token economy of the token RPG.
In the future, Rangers Protocol will support cross-chain solutions based on relay chains, and support the transfer of existing Ethereum assets in Rangers Protocol; and realize EVM enhancement, and improve vertical field development efficiency by extending Solidity syntax. It is estimated that in the first quarter of 2022, Rangers Protocol will achieve IDE enhancements to support complex applications; establish a project environment similar to the virtual and real environment, make smart contracts adjustable and measurable, and maximize developer efficiency.
(2) Why do developers choose Rangers Protocol?
The MixMarvel ecology is currently like a piece of rough jade, which urgently needs to be polished by project developers. But for the project, what differentiated advantages does MixMarvel have that can attract developers? Odaily believes that there are three main points: one is the rich experience in the development of NFT chain games; the other is financial support; the third is the underlying architecture support.
Regarding the first one, as a development team with the same reputation as Dapper Labs, MixMarvel has been deeply involved in the chain game and NFT field for many years, stepped on countless pitfalls, and has already explored a set of effective development models. need. For traditional games and IPs who want to chain reform, or developers who have entered the chain game market, MixMarvel's experience is invaluable. Recently, DeHero, a decentralized GameFi application incubated by MixMarvel, started testing on the BSC test chain. This project is the latest practice of the Staking Game concept proposed by MixMarvel community members in 2019.
Regarding financial support, Jade Zhang told Odaily that Rangers Protocol will use 20% of the ecological token RPG as ecological incentives; at the same time, the service fees of the middle-level protocol and upper-level applications will be allocated to the "treasury" in proportion as financial support. part. "Rangers Protocol not only encourages complete product developers, but also developers who contribute to the underlying infrastructure such as protocol plug-ins, which are often overlooked by other ecosystems." Jade Zhang explained.
Of course, more importantly, the strong technical strength behind Rangers Protocol is the foundation of its foothold. For example, a Role Play Games game developer needs to develop a chain game, and turn the item product into NFT to circulate on the chain. If the traditional Ethereum is chosen as the underlying architecture, the project will basically be pronounced dead in advance. Because in this game, players need to perform a lot of operations on the chain, including fighting, collecting equipment, and practicing to upgrade their level... However, every operation on Ethereum costs more than tens of dollars in Gas fees, and the network is congested, and the confirmation time is long . The end result can only be that the game has become a toy for local tyrants, and ordinary users cannot play it at all.
If you choose to develop such games based on the Rangers Protocol, the efficient VRF+BLS consensus mechanism can solve the problem of high-frequency transactions, and player operations can achieve second-level response, which is a hundred times more efficient than traditional PoW and reduces network congestion. At the same time, the network Gas fee is greatly reduced. According to official calculations, 1/3 of the miner's fee can be saved in extremely complex scenarios.
Previously, Rangers Protocol incorporated protocols such as ERC-721 to regulate NFT as a standard for digital assets. Based on the ERC-721 standard, Rangers Protocol extends its own features, including life cycle management, a new data structure that supports data reuse, and data rights management based on Dapp latitude.
In addition, considering that different ecologies have different advantages, Rangers Protocol's cross-chain solution can effectively break the island effect and realize the interconnection of public chain information and transactions.
"Ethereum has the largest community and high-quality developers. BSC has more trading users and new projects. Public chains such as Polkadot and Solana have their own characteristics. Rangers Protocol's cross-chain solution is to help developers take care of all aspects. The advantages of the chain. We are not trying to compete with them, but to link and serve them. The most basic service of Rangers Protocol is to help projects develop on Ethereum, trade on BSC, and cross-chain back to Ethereum .” Jade Zhang explained that the contract-level interoperability of Rangers Protocol can help developers effectively reduce migration costs.
In general, compared with Flow, Immutable and Ronin, which are also currently focusing on the NFT market, Rangers Protocol has natural advantages in asset cross-chain transfer, and is also better than the three in terms of composability and interoperability. Through compatibility with the Ethereum EVM, Rangers Protocol is very friendly to the "transplantation" of existing DApps in the Ethereum ecosystem; from past historical data, in the early versions, the Rocket Protocol has been growing at a rate of tens of thousands of users per week. It is expected to continue to replicate the previous successful model in the future. With a more complete developer reward mechanism, a more open ecological layout, and rich development experience, Rangers Protocol may take the lead in the "battle" for developers.
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3. Rangers Protocol and the open world
As an important foundation of the MixMarvel universe, the Rangers Protocol is the cornerstone supporting the formation of the "open world". The so-called open world refers to the exchange of assets and the joint construction of communities without communication barriers, with the theme of freedom and openness.
Regarding the positioning of Rangers Protocol, MixMarvel made a metaphor:
In the blockchain universe, Ethereum is a big planet, Polkadot is a constellation, and Rangers Protocol is an Odaily (hereinafter referred to as R Odaily) that is comparable in size to other planets and can freely shuttle between galaxies. R Odaily itself has a scalable Rangers Engine, which not only professionally supports complex decentralized applications such as NFTs and games, but also provides parallel Engines for the blockchain Odaily, allowing developers on other Odaily to enter without permission through the Rangers Connector R Odaily, create your own applications freely.
It is worth mentioning that MixMarvel plays a special role on R Odaily, it is the first entertainment center on R Odaily. As a game publishing platform and content community, MixMarvel will bring rich content and high-quality users to Rangers Protocol through self-developed or published games. In addition, Rangers Protocol has strong flexibility and is compatible with any type of developers. It will not exclude other types of developers just because MixMarvel started out as a game entertainment company. It is also developed independently of MixMarvel. To make a visual metaphor, the relationship between Rangers Protocol and MixMarvel is like the JD platform and JD self-operated.
The unique openness and inclusiveness of Rangers Protocol also make it popular in the capital market. Rangers Protocol has just announced the closing of institutional funding at a valuation of $63 million. Financing institutions include: Pantera, Framework Ventures, Alameda Research, Hashkey Capital, SevenX Ventures, SNZ, Spark Digital Capital, Incuba Alpha Holdings, Consensus Lab, Puzzle Ventures, Kernel Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, Origin Capital, Yuanyuzhou Ventures, AU21Capital Dozens of institutions, as well as the former co-founder of Ele.me. In addition, as a strategic partner, Polkastarter has also conducted in-depth cooperation with Rangers Protocol.
